Change

Change we can do without.

 Barack Obama is our President. When he was inaugurated I hoped  for the best, that he would prove me wrong of my impressions of what his Presidency would be like. I still do. So far he hasn't. Unfortunately it may be worse than I could have imagined. I believe that the American electorate has made a terrible mistake. I can understand why so many voted the way they did. Job loses, and a relatively bad final two years of the former administration. A historic election, an epic event in the history of this land. Now what ?? Have liberal fascists hijacked the Office of President of The United States ? I hope not. I hope I'm wrong.

Hope, a simple word that I have now used three times. Change, I think that's a word that became a theme, actually Hope and Change were themes in Senator Obama's campaign to become President. It worked. But, Hope for what? Change to what ? Now that he is President, what has changed ? We no longer are fighting a war on terror, we are engaged in "Ongoing Contingency Operations"(OCO), what an insult to our military. China, and Russia are committing themselves to expanding their military capabilities both conventional and otherwise. According to the UPI the two former communist rivals recently completed their first joint military training exercise. The administration has sent overtures to Iran, and if I'm not mistaken Syria; both supporters of Hezbollah. Two nations that are sworn enemies of one of our closest allies, Israel, as well as state sponsors of terrorism. The possibility of a one world currency. 

A Treasury Secretary that was a Tax Cheat. Have "the nuts taken over the nut house" ?
Then there is the Budget. The President is pushing forward a massive spending fiasco that will be greater than the combined budgets of all administrations  from George Washington to George W Bush. Nearly ten trillion dollars in ten years. Check Card, Cap and Trade, Nationalized Health Care. Go figure. 

 Meanwhile we are so preoccupied with bad economic news, dis- informed by a politically biased media, a government bureaucracy that is so vast there is no way of keeping up with all the policy changes through executive orders. Stroke of the pen, law of the land.   I never thought I would be fearful of the future, but I am. I  have always thought of Thomas Jefferson's words such as those quoted previously (below) as from someone wanting to create a better world than the one they had previously known. But also as a warning to future generations. Now those words are bordering on prophetic. Could it happen here. Has it already happened here. The one that worries me most is Tyranny.

Is our precious Constitution on life support ? Do enough people care ? Or are we so caught up in worldly distractions to notice the surreptitious transformation that is taking place. Is this just my illusion, coupled with post election sour grapes conjuring up a conspiracy theory. 

I hope  so, but I think not.

When a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and  history professor uses the "D" word in describing where this administration is orienting, that worries me.

 Big Time ! D is for dictatorship.  Either Time or Newsweek, I think it was Time had Obama portrayed on the cover in the likeness of FDR. He ain't no FDR ! 

I think Albert Einstein said "we all sit on the shoulders of a giant (Sir Issac Newton).

I believe the Giant of our time is Reagan.

Thomas Jefferson, Dan Hannan

Hank Williams Jr. wrote a song in which the lyrics contained the phrase " Mr. Lincoln I wish you were here". I wish Jefferson were available to straighten things out up in Washington. Mr Jefferson I wish you were here !

Some quotes from Thomas Jefferson:

• "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give it to those who would not"
• "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.....The course of history shows that as government grows, liberty decreases."
• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
• "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort , to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
• "Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
• "When people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." 

In the YouTube below:

Dan Hannan from the U. K. addressing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the E.U.

"Look Mr. President, No Teleprompter"

This was by any measure an Impromptu Smack down ! 

Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

Preach it brother Dan, preach it.
The U. K. is as we will be if we let the democrats run our Nation off the socialist cliff.

Lets borrow some more !

The thought of what our National Leadership is pushing on our future generations to pay for is mind numbing They are going to push this economy over the cliff. Politico.com has a good article on this  so I'll defer to them.

I seem to get most of my inspiration to write something at the worst time, when I'm away from this keyboard. Then when I get home I'm too tired. I found this on YouTube. I think it sums up some of what I was wanting to post. Enjoy ! 

School House Rock - Tyrannosaurus Debt

You just can't beat school house rock in getting the message across. YouTube-Cartoonsongs

I know, he mean't nothing by it.

When our President was nominated, I decided that I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. There was really nothing too this, if one of us had said it we might have seemed a bit insensitive as he did, but we're not the President. Your not suppose to do that when your the president Mr President ! Of course we don't have a teleprompter to read from either. Neither did our fearless leader. I think the real Obama comes out when the teleprompter is still packed up in the trunk of the limo. What does it mean to me, he's just like anyone else. No big deal, an unguarded moment for our Teleprompter in Chief. 

Barack Obama

Our Teleprompter-in-Chief on Leno.
when there is no teleprompter the real Obama comes out.

Gradulate the Gator

found on youtube . NoopsDawg's channel

The Pride of Jacksonville

For a couple of days now this video has been out. Florida congresswoman Corrine Brown(D-Jacksonville)  takes the floor of the U.S. House congratulating her Florida Gators on the 2008 National Championship. I can count at least six other blogs that I have found this on in the last ten minutes. Hay more power to yah Mrs Congresswoman. This is just too good to leave alone. This blogs title is Sports, Politics and More. The video covers two of these. I was not going to go with this because I found it elsewhere but it is out there and why not.   

Thought I'd share some pics from way back !

This picture was taken in September of 1985 in Athens at the Georgia vs. Alabama game. Dooley's Dawgs lost that night 16-20. We were in the metal bleachers on the west end between the Alabama and Georgia sections. This QB named Mike Shula threw the winning touch down just below us to the left. That section was nuts for a few minutes. Georgia had went ahead with a minute to go before Shula drove them down the field for the win. 

The pictures below are from the Sun Bowl played in El Paso Texas on December 28 1985 between UGA and Arizona. I was invited out there by my Aunt, Uncle, and first cousin Mike.  Mike is that fellow on the left, I'm that other guy. Mike is a Georgia Bulldog through & through, and great guy. 

GSU vs YSU Football National Championship

1999 1AA National Championship.Coach Paul Johnson's Georgia Southern Eagles defeat Coach Jim Tressel's Youngstown State Penguins 59-24
This video was uploaded by "DragLimited" on Feb.01 2008.

Georgia Southern Feasibility Study

Many may not know that Georgia Southern University is conducting a feasibility study to determine what is needed to move up to football bowl subdivision ( FBS) the former 1A from football championship subdivision (FCS) formerly 1AA. Georgia Southern has a short but rich history in the last twenty seven years after restarting the program that was dormant since 1941. Since the first press conference when former UGA defensive coordinator Coach Erk Russel was hired to be the head coach for the eagles, Georgia Southern has won six 1AA National Championships, eight Southern Conference Championships, and made sixteen playoff appearances. The last championship was in2000 against Montana. In 1999 The Eagles,  coached by  Paul Johnson defeated Youngstown State coached by Jim Tressel  59-24.  Adrian Peterson, the junior running back from Georgia Southern was awarded the 1999 Walter Payton Award as the Nation's top 1AA offensive player.

Top Dog

Let me introduce my good friend Ranger. He is a seven year old Bernese Lab Mix. I have to say that Ranger ranks up there in rare company, only shared by one other dog in my life. Charlie, a basset Hound when I was growing up. Ranger is definitely the yard boss at our place.

Constitutional Peasants

From the Youtube Monty Python Channel.
Just Because

Fumble and TD in 80 seconds

"Ohh, The Pain, The Pain"

Alabama @ Georgia -- Rammer Jammer

This is why you don't lose to BAMA

What's with our new leadership in Washington

Ok, I can handle my favorite team(s) losing a football game or something because I know that the term limit is only one year. Like you dawg fans out there that felt the sting of the yellow bug, and I don't mean some tropical disease. I mean those buzzy bees from that so called Technical Institute called Georgia Tech. Like Georgia, presidential candidate Senator McCain had a lousy second half. That democrat ground game chewed them up in the second half and sent the Republicans licking there wounds to the locker room. Unfortunately we have to wait four long years to get another opportunity to put the leftists in their rightful place, out of the White House. I have been in a state of denial since November. Reality set in when President Obama was sworn in and I couldn't bare to watch my Fox News Shows. Kinda like a Dawg fan after the whipping that Bama put on-um in the sacred grounds of Sanford Stadium. Nothing forces me into an " I wish they would just shut up with that" more than hearing the Tiders yelling that "Hay Dawgs"rammer jammer chant with the "we just beat the hall out of you !" crap that they indulge themselves in after a big win . Just as bad as watching the Democrats at their convention in '92 do the Macarana  (spelling?) Oh please , direct me to the nearest barf bag ! 

So we have to put up with this re run of the Carter Administration. Staring Hillery Clinton as the Secretary of State, and a host of ex Clintonistas in various cabinet roles, like Leon Poneta as CIA Chief. If this weren't real I'd think the cast of characters came out of a Mel Brooks comedy. But this ain't no joke. Just ask the Pols who the Administration tried to bargain their missile defense away with Russia for help dealing with Iran. Just Damn. Or How about the attempt to find agreeable Taliban to court. What ?? .  I might as well get the chips and dip ready, oil up the recliner lever because this is gonna be fun to watch, but not that funny. I just don't know how long we the United States survive this long four quarter tilt with so many fumbles already.  

2004 Georgia Southern Football Highlight Film Pt. 1

Ahh the Triple Option, and some great defense. What could be better.

My First Blog

Last week, Kimberly and I got the cameras out there and recorded some scenes of the big snow. At the time I had no idea that I would be doing this blog thing, although I have been pondering the idea for a while.  Sunday I was looking for a link to a site that I had made a post on and somehow came up with this blogger that I had registered on  previously to make a post. I think it was on GeorgiaSports Blog or something. I clicked on the "create a blog" tab and that's how this got started. I had no great vision of what I wanted to do with it. I have interests in sports, politics and other stuff like amateur radio which I haven't found a spot to incorporate into this yet if ever. My main interest in sports is of course college football. We are right here on the cusp of "March Madness" of NCAA Basketball and I have to admit I am not an avid basketball follower, or baseball either so I may have bitten off more than I can chew at this but hopefully over time this blog and I will evolve in diversity of other sports. 

Politically I am right of center. I consider myself to be a conservative, but not totally Republican. Politics isn't something I get into at work, or in church which is about the extent of my social life simply because for me those are the  wrong places  for it.  You never know who is going to be offended accidentally, so I thought here is a great environment to post my views or rants at the time and maybe get some feed back through some healthy political discourse. National Politics always seems to be the center of attention even when we have bone headed local politicians piddling around under our noses with various agendas.  Of course government should be there as a social instrument to resolve issues of one kind or another even if it means getting out of the way to do it. That's something our friends on both the left and right haven't quite figured out yet. 

So, I don't know if this is a going to grow into a sports blog of very amateur content with political distractions or vise versa. I invite anyone who stumbles in here to post your thoughts. 

Big Snow in Bethlehem

As everyone in North and Middle Georgia knows Sunday March 1 2009 was anything but normal. It started out as a rain soaked day, keeping this dog on the porch, and the four legged dogs in their little houses. The ground was completely saturated with water, and my Kimberly, who was suffering from a tooth ache had determined that we wouldn't be going to church. About 1230pm I got a call from my mother who lives about a mile and a half away asking if we had looked out the window.  What a surprise. I had given up on any snow for the year, but this one made up for several years worth. I thought with the ground so saturated with water, the snowfall would just hit the ground and be gone. Another surprise, It accumulated. about three inches worth on the hood of our car. This probably wouldn't have been such a shock had I paid any attention to the weather forecast.

This was a great weather event, aside from the fifteen hour power outage that followed. Fortunately it didn't knock me out of work. I have never heard thunder during a snow, but it did. The precipitation was not snow flakes, it was snow balls, we got bombed and it was great !